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A century after the first rocket launch, Ars staffers pick their favorites
"I realized that if something went wrong up there, things might go very badly down here."
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Nango (YC W23, API Access for Agents and Apps) Is Hiring
Article URL: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Nango Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397842 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story
Article URL: https://www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-trying-to-win-a-bet-on-polymarket-are-vowing-to-kill-me-if-i-dont-rewrite-an-iran-missile-story/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397822 Points: 43 # Comments: 7
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Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies
Article URL: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/political-science/articles/10.3389/fpos.2026.1779810/full Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397593 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
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Scientists discover a surprising way to quiet the anxious mind (2025)
Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/10/251027023816.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397528 Points: 22 # Comments: 9
Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?
How has the curriculum changed? What are the professors telling their students to explain why the course they enrolled in deserves the rigorous study? Are the students buying it - and is it matching reality at the end of the course? Itâs hard to get
The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books
Article URL: https://www.alexerhardt.com/en/enshittification-amazon-paperback-books/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47385576 Points: 161 # Comments: 124
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SpiceCrypt: A Python library for decrypting LTspice encrypted model files
Article URL: https://github.com/jtsylve/spice-crypt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47385011 Points: 42 # Comments: 5
Six ingenious ways how Canon DSLRs used to illuminate their autofocus points
Article URL: https://exclusivearchitecture.com/03-technical-articles-CSDS-00-table-of-contents.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47385579 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
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The billionaires made a promise â now some want out
In 2010, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates launched a disarmingly simple campaign they called the Giving Pledge: a public commitment, open to the worldâs wealthiest people, to give away more than half their fortune during their lifetime or upon their dea
ASCII and Unicode quotation marks (2007)
Article URL: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47395147 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
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Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance
https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/bill/C-22/first-r... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47392084 Points: 578 # Comments: 157
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Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories
Article URL: https://www.aikido.dev/blog/glassworm-returns-unicode-attack-github-npm-vscode Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47387047 Points: 244 # Comments: 152
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Netflixâs âFrankensteinâ wins three Oscars, âKPop Demon Huntersâ wins two
âFrankensteinâ won for Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, and Best Makeup and Hairstyling, while âKPop Demon Huntersâ won for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song.
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Google, Accel India accelerator chooses 5 startups and none are âAI wrappersâ
Google and Accel say about 70% of AI startup pitches tied to India were "wrappers" as they reviewed more than 4,000 applications for their Atoms cohort.